>>BILL COSBY'S SEXUAL ASSAULT RETRIAL HAS JUST BEGUN.
THIS IS THE SEXUAL ASSAULT TRIAL INVOLVING ANDREA KONSTANTIN
AND AN INCIDENT THAT ALLEGEDLY OCCURRED BACK IN 2004.
SHE HAD ALLEGED THAT HE DRUGGED HER AND ASSAULTED HER.
THE ORIGINAL TRIAL ENDED UP WITH THE JURORS UNABLE TO REACH AN
AGREEMENT.
BUT IN THIS NEW TRIAL THERE WILL BE DIFFERENT STANDARDS.
BUT APPARENTLY AS COSBY WAS OUT IN THE PUBLIC ATTENDING HIS
TRIAL HE WAS RUSHED BY A FEMALE
PROTESTER NAMED NICOLE, SHE WAS TOPLESS WHEN SHE CHARGED AT HIM.
LUCKILY THERE WERE COPS THERE WHO MANAGED TO KEEP HER AWAY.
I DON'T KNOW IF SHE WAS PLANNING ON CAUSING ANY PHYSICAL HARM.
SHE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH DISORDERLY CONDUCT.
>> SHE WAS LOOKING TO GET
ATTENTION FOR THE COSBY CASE.
AND SHE DID.
OF COURSE THE COPS HAD TO STOP HER AND THEY DID DIE THAT LEADS
US TO TALK MORE ABOUT THE CASE WHICH IS NOT SUCH A BAD THING.
>>SHE SUCCEEDED IN DRAWING MORE ATTENTION TO THE RETRIAL.
HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE RETRIAL.
THIS TIME AROUND THE JUDGE MADE SOME ASSUMPTIONS THAT WERE NOT
MADE IN THE PREVIOUS TRIAL.
THERE WAS ONLY ONE ACCUSER.
THIS TIME THE JUDGE IS MAKING AN EXCEPTION TO ALLOW PROSECUTORS
TO SHOW A PATTERN.
AS WE KNOW THE ACCUSERS SHARED VERY SIMILAR STORIES ABOUT THEIR
ALLEGED EXPERIENCE WITH BILL
COSBY.
>> THEY WERE ALSO GOING TO LET A TEMPLE UNIVERSITY COLLEAGUE
TESTIFY AGAINST HER SAYING SHE WANTED TO SET UP A HIGH
PROFILE PERSON.
CONSTANT SAYS SHE IS ABSOLUTELY LYING.
THEY ARE ALSO GOING TO LET THEM FIND OUT HOW MUCH THEIR
SETTLEMENT WAS BETWEEN CONSTANT AND COSBY WHEN THEY DID THE
CIVIL SETTLEMENT EARLIER.
I COULD PLAY EITHER WAY.
COSBY'S LAWYERS ARE REALLY AGGRESSIVE THIS TIME AROUND.
THEY ARE SAYING SHE'S LOOKING FOR A BIG PAYDAY.
ONE LAST FACTOR.
THE LAST TRIAL HAPPENED BEFORE THE ME TOO MOVEMENT.
I THINK THE
BIGGEST DIFFERENCE WILL BE THAT THEY ARE GOING TO ALLOW FIVE
OTHER VICTIMS RATHER THAN JUST
ONE.
THAT ESTABLISHES A PATTERN THAT IS HARD TO GET PAST.
SO BILL COSBY MIGHT ACTUALLY GO TO JAIL.
>>EXACTLY.
ONE OTHER THING IS IMPORTANT BUT STILL UP IN THE AIR.
THERE IS A QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT THE JUDGE WILL ALLOW THE
JURORS TO HEAR COSBY'S
DEPOSITION FROM A LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST COSBY BY CONSTAND.
IN
THAT DEPOSITION HE ADMITTED TO
SOMETIMES GIVING WOMEN QUAALUDES BEFORE HAVING SEX WITH THEM.
>> THAT OBVIOUSLY CAN BE VERY DAMAGING.
THERE'S A REASON IN MY MIND WHY HE SHOULDN'T ADMIT THAT.
THAT IS VERY RELEVANT TO THIS CASE.
EITHER WAY IT LOOKS LIKE COSBY IS IN SOME SERIOUS TROUBLE.